Project: Move hosting off of Netlify about covid-19-data HOT 3 CLOSED

I tried moving it to CF Pages (which would be the easiest option given the existing _redirects file and such), but we cannot do that since there are several files that are over the 25MB limit.

Instead, I then tried uploading these files to R2 (bucket covid-19) and made that bucket publicly available at https://covid.owid.io.
In addition, I set up Bulk redirects and Response header transform rules in the Cloudflare dashboard, to match _headers and _redirects as closely as possible.
That seems to have worked pretty well.

There are a few slight differences:

• I couldn't replicate the code-200 redirects from Netlify, so instead these are 301s now.
• I checked, and both CF and DO return Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * headers, but only if an Origin header is present on the header.

Outstanding steps:

• Test that explorer files load just fine from covid.owid.io
• Copy these bulk redirects and transform rules over to apply to covid.ourworldindata.org
• Update the existing on-deploy workflow to instead upload these files to R2.
• Switch covid.ourworldindata.org over to point to R2.
• Remove the _redirects and _headers files, since redirects and headers will have to be set up differently in the future.

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Sounds good to me. Without diving into it too much it could be that some scripts break if we change the status code of redirects but at this point I think this is no big deal. Sounds good to me!

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This is mostly done now, just keeping this issue open until #2820 is merged with some cleanup work.

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